Yeah…so…how arrogant, and entitled are you? You think you’re some climate saviour, but all you do is block those posing perfectly valid questions? You’re nothing more than a leach…and a sheep. People like you should be ashamed of yourselves. Using the ignorant for your gain.

It’s now my primary purpose to ensure you never get a dime from the Canadian public, ever again.

Vague anonymous threats show that you’re clearly a very influential, well-informed, and capable individual. Surely the world needs your talents to be applied to something more fruitful than maintaining this pleasant conversation.

Your last comment is rather rich for a guy who blocks everyone who doesn’t agree with him, and has a section of his website dedicated to “arguing with climate change deniers”.

Nobody denies climate change exists, however plenty are willing to question man’s influence, and the ultimate severity of climate change on our existence. The closed-minded among us are those not willing to have an open and frank discussion. THOSE people are “deniers”, in the most literal sense. People like you, apparently.

I asked you a very simple question on Twitter…what would happen if Canada, and our 1.6% of global GHGs, ceased to exist tomorrow? Your response? You blocked me.

YOU are worse than those fictional deniers you so obviously loath. YOU won’t even engage in conversation…you simply write opposing viewpoints off as not worthy of “wasting your time”. Well…I hope the person who wrote the 1st comment is successful. YOU shouldn’t be taking a penny of public funds, if that is your attitude.

If you want to spend your time improving your knowledge rather than feeling sorry for yourself, I recommend David MacKay’s excellent book on how we can make society more efficient and what climate-safe forms of energy we have available.

If Canada made a sincere commitment to decarbonization, and to phasing out the fossil fuel exports which generate pollution elsewhere, the world would surely notice and the example would contribute toward the formation of the global will to solve climate change.

Here’s what you REFUSE to acknowledge…if Canada ceased to exist tomorrow, by late summer 2019, global emissions would be back to exactly where they are today.

Crippling our economy solves NOTHING.

In fact, if it is TRULY about reducing global emissions, the solution is to INCREASE ours. But, you will never grasp that concept. You will never grasp that developing an LNG export sector, while increasing our emissions, will exponentially decrease Asia’s. THAT leads to an actual and significant global reduction. The supposed end goal. But, it is becoming very apparent that this isn’t actually about emission reductions. The shutting down of any and all discussions makes that VERY apparent.

You could have gotten it in more entertaining fashion from watching the video, but my point is about the nature of argument. One character rightly says: “An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.”

If somebody isn’t doing that, it’s pointless to try to engage with them on the basis of logic or evidence. They’re just pushing warm air toward you, not engaging in any sort of meaningful communication or intellectual effort.

Some pretty good reasons for them not to do so include: (1) you’re making claims which are well known and demonstrated to be false (2) your logical arguments are invalid or non-existent and (3) your communication style is unpleasant to witness.

Your right to free speech is the same as your right to shout gibberish at passing cars on the highway. You’re free to shout, but nobody needs to stop or roll down their window.

How does one have “civil and meaningful discussion” with those who call anyone who disagrees with them a “denier”, claim ” the science is settled” (science is rarely “settled” , and if this is, why are we still funding studies…or paying for Milan, here?), and shout down or block ANY dissenting opinion, or suggestion, no matter how innocuous, Mr./Mrs./Zir “Anon”?

The fact is, those who “believe”, and are fully vested members of the climate cult, are THE WORST at shutting down any possibility of ” civil and meaningful discussion”…whether you care to admit it or not (and you won’t…).

Thousands took to the streets of Montreal on Saturday as part of a citizen movement called The Planet Goes to Parliament, calling on politicians and the new CAQ government to make the environment a priority.

The local movement comes in response to an appeal from the UN secretary general, who says the world has reached a pivotal moment in global warming, and risks runaway climate change if leaders don’t act in the next two weeks.

How does one have “civil and meaningful discussion” with those who call anyone who disagrees with them a “denier”, claim ” the science is settled” (science is rarely “settled” , and if this is, why are we still funding studies…

For shit sake man, you can’t go in one second from “don’t call me a denier” to then immediately: “science is rarely “settled””. It’s like saying: “I’m not a duck” to “I’m a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae”.